Kaytha Clawson, MD

Horrible doctor! She didn’t listen to what I had to say and offered no real solution to my problem.
To top that off, she made snarky, condescending comments and went on a rant about women who are desperately trying to be pregnant. (Even though I made it very clear early on that was not why I was there to see her). This is the first doctor I’ve met who has such a bad attitude towards her patients. Avoid!

She’s wonderful and I seen her on year 2010 & 2011 until they moved from Portola Valley to Redwood City. She’ll notify your pap smear result on a letter that sent to your home.

Love her! Started working with her mid-​pregnancy, and she has been absolutely wonderful, especially helpful with getting some complications and tests resolved for me

Just wrapped up my prenatal care with Dr. Clawson, and I had an absolutely wonderful experience with her from beginning to end. Her kindness, approachability and easy going nature made it a pleasure to be her patient. I always felt I was in the hands of a very thoughtful and attentive caregiver. Also, Dr. Clawson is part of an amazing OBGYN group, so even though I didn’t end up getting to deliver our baby with Dr. Clawson, I was very impressed with the two other OBGYN’s who were a part of my delivery experience. I will definitely go back to Dr. Clawson as we grow our family — she’s lovely.

A simply wonderful doctor. She really listens to you, and has an incredibly calming presence. It feels like going to see a friend who is also an incredibly knowledgeable and competent doctor. She also only recommends actions that are appropriate, and is really helpful about navigating the complicated web of insurance, which I really appreciate in this day and age.

Great doctor! I was referred to the OB-​GYN dept of my local PAMF to follow up with fibroids. She gave me all the info needed and I proceeded with a surgery to have them removed. She asked me all types of questions to make sure we went with the route to set me up for my future planning. Surgery was successful and she was available when I needed to have any questions answered. She was just as genuine during post-​ops and a very friendly doctor! I will def keep her as my ob-​gyn.

In 2006 Dr Clawson helped me save a piece of myself — my sexuality and a sense of well being regarding my body. I cannot adequately review her as a Dr without getting a little personal. So, with the goal to help others with their body choices even though it’s a little hard to put some personal points out there online, I proceed. Before finding Dr Clawson, I had been seen by a community college practitioner and another Dr in the palo alto medical foundation. This was because I had just found out I had multiple forms of HPV, high risk and low risk, all given to me by the same person, whom at the time I thought was my partner. I was young and very naïve and devastated. My emotional well being was destroyed and my body seemed to be out of my own control. I needed to have warts removed. The cc practitioner just froze off bits of me and the palo alto medical foundation Dr refused to listen to me and did not treat my body fully… all making it physically and emotionally worse. Dr Clawson was supportive in just the right way. She skillfully treated me and helped me to take control of my body’s well being once again.
She was, and still is, just the right amount of empathetic and she actually listens to me and my choices and works with me to make sure we are taking care of my body. For instance, you may have noticed, if ever looking into many birth control options and settling on a non western approach, that Drs become irritated and repeatedly press drugs like the nuvaring or what ever pharmaceutical their office is pushing at the time when you mention fertility charting as a viable birth control method. When I told Dr Clawson that I wanted to use fertility charting as a form of birth control, we went over what that meant to me and how I’d feel if the method did not work. (Which she asked in a way without judgement… solely to find my needs. Not passively non-​judging but doing so with me to find the best approach) We went over the research I’d done and talked about this approach. So, she is the most skilled Dr — procedurally and emotionally — that I have seen.
And to add to ease and resourcefulness of treatment, she has a mini ultra sound available for use. This is very helpful if you want to check your ovaries during a regular exam. I also at one point developed an ovarian cyst, and though she did not treat it (not covered by insurance at the time. I will not let that happen again!) She’s helped me with check ups afterwards to make sure everything’s ok. It’s very comforting to check visually that everything’s looking good. (A note on ultra sounds — reading them is an art, so it’s not a perfect visual replica but still very useful given the alternative ways to view one’s ovaries.)